Patterson goes to San Diego
Monday June 14, 2010
Part of Jackson Community Wellness Team
On June 14th Keith Patterson will be traveling to San Diego with Jackson City Mayor Jerry Gist, JMCSS Superintendent Nancy Zambito, and other community leaders to represent Jackson-Madison County at the ACHIEVE Action Institute. This program is sponsored through a grant provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation.
CDC's Healthy Communities Program Action Institutes train leadership teams from funded communities in how to make health-related policy, systems, and environmental changes. These interventions at the local level focus on preventing and controlling chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, obesity, and arthritis and reducing the prevalence of health risk factors, especially tobacco use and exposure, insufficient physical activity, and poor nutrition.
Community leadership teams receive training from innovative national experts on community-action and community-change processes and develop an action plan during the institutes. They also gain access to a wide range of action tools, resources, and strategies and hear from peer communities about how to undertake effective interventions. Team-building opportunities are scheduled to promote further discussion and infrastructure development. This experience advances the team's collective thinking regarding vision, priorities, and next steps.
This program supports Jackson-Madison County's Jumpstart Jackson efforts geared to fighting childhood obesity and community wellness.
